Climate Science Resources
We’ve gathered the following climate science resources, with a focus on the latest Hawaiʻi-relevant climate research, and will be updating this list on a regular basis. Come back soon and feel free to pass your suggestions for additions to us at nobrega@hawaii.edu.
2012
- Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts (Full Report)
Keener, V.W., Marra, J.J., Finucane M.L., Spooner, D., & Smith, M.H. (Eds.). (2012). Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts. Report for the 2012 Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA). Washington, D.C.: Island Press. - Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts (Executive Summary)
Keener, V.W., Marra, J.J., Finucane M.L., Spooner, D., & Smith, M.H. (Eds.). (2012). Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts. Executive Summary of the 2012 Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA). Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
2011
- Projection of changes in the frequency of heavy rain events over Hawaiʻi based on leading Pacific climate modes.
Timm, O. E., H. F. Diaz, T. W. Giambelluca, and M. Takahashi – Journal of Geophyscal Research- Hawaii, Rainfall
2010
- Hawaiʻi’s Changing Climate
Fletcher, C. H. – University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program- Hawaii, Freshwater, Rainfall
- Sea Levels Online
NOAA- Hawaii, Sea level rise
- Pacific ENSO Update
National Weather Service – Pacific ENSO Applications Climate Center- Hawaii, ENSO
2009
- Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Karl, T. R., J. M. Melillo, T. C. Peterson (eds.)2008 – Global Change Research Program, Cambridge- Hawaii
- Relative Increase of Record High Maximum Temperatures Compared to Record Low Minimum Temperatures in the U.S.
Meehl, G. A., C. Tebaldi, G. Walton, D. Easterline, and L. McDaniel – Geophysical Research Letters- Temperature
- An Anomalous recent acceleration of global sea level rise
Merrifield, M. A., S. T. Merrifield, G. T. Mitchum – Journal of Climate- Sea level rise
- Synoptic-Statistical Approach to Regional Downscaling of IPCC Twenty-First Century Climate Projections: Sesonal Rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands
Timm, O. and H. Diaz – Journal of Climate- Hawaii, Rainfall, Freshwater
2008
- Secular Temperature Changes in Hawaiʻi
Giambelluca, T. W., H. F. Diaz, and M. S. A. Luke – Geophysical Research Letters- Hawaii, Temperature
2006
- Weakening of Tropical Pacific Atmospheric Circulation due to Anthropogenic Forcing
Vecchi, G. A., B. J. Soden, A. T. Wittenberg, I. M. Held, A. Leetmaa, M. J. Harrison – Nature- Hawaii, Rainfall
2005
- Interannual and Interdecadal Rainfall Variations in the Hawaiian Islands
Chu, P. S., H. Chen – Journal of Climate- Hawaii, Rainfall, Freshwater
2004
- Extreme Sea Level Events at Hawaiʻi: Influence of Mesoscale Eddies
Firing, Y. and M. A. Merrifield – Geophysical Research Letters- Hawaii, Sea level rise
- Sub-Lethal Effects of Elevated Concentration of CO2 on Planktonic Copepods and Sea Urchins Kurihara, Haruko, Shinji Shimode and Yoshihisa Shirayama – Journal of Oceanography
- Ocean acidification
- Trends in Streamflow Characteristics at Long-term Gauging Stations, Hawaiʻi
Oki, D. – U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report- Hawaii, Freshwater